[dan1123]

Ummm... Google is in the advertising business (the search functions are just to get you to their page to view the ads, kinda like music on the radio is to keep you listening between commercial breaks), so it would NOT be in their best interest to include those programs.

Since it's open source, I would imagine that these features will be added by someone. I wonder if there would be any interest in a browser designed for Free Republic. I would like to have a button that would take me to the FR comments page of an article I'm reading...

[HAL9000]

I wonder if there would be any interest in a browser designed for Free Republic.

I was wondering about that too. A few months ago, I compiled a Cocoa app that could become a Free Republic web browser. It's basically WebKit rendering engine with Apple's user interface.

It's called... wait for it... ... ... the "FRowser".

I had several cool ideas for it, but haven't done anything with it since. With some additional coding, it could do automatic signatures, tagline rotation, blacklisting messages by user-specified screen names, etc.